It is indeed saddened to read that the UK Government have plans to barred Asylum Seekers from receiving free health care treatment in UK, I wish to remind us all and especially the law makers that Asylum seekers are all foreigners and from every part of the World they come from they all have a very poor health care facility, most of whom came into UK with different illnesses, most have been in detention in their different countries, they are mostly malnourished as a result of the fact that they are coming from underdeveloped countries or could have undergone so many ill-treatments, some of whom came to UK by ship, and some where transported by lorries across the borders in a very unpleasant situation, some of whom are physically and psychologicaly imbalanced. These vulnerable people if denied access to health care will tantamount to a massive outbreak of diseases in UK in the near future, Asylum Seekers in UK should be allowed to access free medical treatment while in UK, and not only on emergency because while in UK and there is an earthquake (which most of us witnessed yesterday) it affect all in our society irrespective of colour, background, age group, location, language, ethnic group, religion or status etc.
I must say that in as much as people are refused Asylum and in one way or the other they are still in UK they should be allowed a free medical treatment to save lives first for humanity as well as enable a check in spread of numerous diseases across UK. Asylum Seekers are human beings like everyone of us, is only that they are being subjected to the name Asylum Seekers because they came to UK to seek asylum, most of whom are experts and specialists in their field of profession. Due to the conditions they found themselves "Asylum seekers" they subjected to living a pauperish lively hood because they can’t afford many things in UK. Their impoverished situation, malnutrition, and fear of the unknown i.e. fear of been grabbed by the Home office (dawn raid) detained / deported back to the country where they fled persecution have inadvertently subjected them to fear which leads to low selfesteem, psyicological effects and could aggravate aggression in many cases.
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Kenzo
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Hi Kenzo,Currently, as it
Hi Kenzo,
Currently, as it stands asylum seekers are entitled to primary and secondary care, which means they can access a GP and be referred for specialist care in a hospital. If the asylum seeker is refused or fails their claim then they are not meant to be 'entitled' to access free primary or secondary care. However, fortunately, there is a discretion for GP's to register who they want and fortunately, not all hospitals have managed to refuse access to secondary care to failed or refused asylum seekers.
The government, however, would like to bring primary care regulations in line with secondary care ones. If the regulations deny access to free primary care for undocumented migrants like they do for secondary care then refused and failed asylum seekers may be denied access to healthcare.
Hope this clears up some confusion although no-one ever really knows what the government is upto.
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Access to health care
Hi Kenzo,
At the moment asylum-seekers are entitled to free primary care (eg from a GP), but not to hospital treatment. The government is doing a review of the system, which may result in withdrawing access to primary health care from refused asylum-seekers, but the final decision hasn't been published yet.
There is more on this in an article at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2007/dec/02/immigration.publicservices
City of Sanctuary and South Yorkshire Migration & Asylum Action Group (SYMAAG) are organising a public meeting about medical care for asylum-seekers on Monday 14th April, 7pm at The Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, Sheffield. Hope you and anyone who is concerned at the situation can come along to find out what we can do.
It's a bit more complex than this...
Hi Kenzo - I don't think it's true that the UK Government have barred asylum seekers from receiving health care.
There are some really unfair discussions taking place at the moment, certainly. And it's also true that asylum seekers have quite limited access to health care already.
I'll do a bit of reading around and see if I can find some links to more information, as I don't have the facts to hand at the moment.